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green modular house

While a lot of people have been trying to make their cars run on cleaner fuel and with some people actually trying to make their houses less energy-dependent, there hasn’t been much chatter on how houses could be built on a more eco-friendly way.

Aside from hooking up houses to solar cells and trying to generate your own power, you may also use green materials that makes your house more energy efficient. There are recently developed materials such as Icynene that could be used as insulating material for walls. Studies show that using this material can reduce the cost of heating and cooling a house up to 50%.

Lighting is one of the things that need the most energy in a house. The modular houses that are designed to be green nowadays come in such a way that natural light can be easily used instead of electric light during the day. This makes it very Earth-friendly – not to mention economical.